New Revised Standard Version
As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field;

Contemporary English Version
We humans are like grass or wild flowers that quickly bloom.

New American Bible
As for man, his days are like the grass; he blossoms like a flower in the field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

his days

Psalm 90:5,6 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

Isaiah 51:12 I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

a flower

Job 14:1-3 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. . . .

Isaiah 28:1,4 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine. . . .

Nahum 1:4 He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers to be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the flower of Libanus fadeth away.